Shoshonean — /ʃoʊˈʃoʊniən/ (say shoh shohneeuhn), /ʃoʊʃəˈniən/ (say shohshuh neeuhn) adjective 1. belonging to or constituting a linguistic group of Native Americans of the western US, including the Shoshone, Comanche, Ute, Paiute, Hopi, etc.; a subdivision… …
Shoshonean — /shoh shoh nee euhn, shoh sheuh nee euhn/, n., pl. Shoshoneans, (esp. collectively) Shoshonean for 2, adj. n. 1. (in some, esp. earlier, classifications) a grouping of four branches of the Uto Aztecan language family including Numic, Hopi, and… … Universalium
Shoshonean — noun a subfamily of Uto Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States • Syn: ↑Shoshonean language, ↑Shoshonian, ↑Shoshonian language • Hypernyms: ↑Uto Aztecan, ↑Uto Aztecan language • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Shoshonean language — noun a subfamily of Uto Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States • Syn: ↑Shoshonean, ↑Shoshonian, ↑Shoshonian language • Hypernyms: ↑Uto Aztecan, ↑Uto Aztecan language • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Shoshonean — n. family of Uto Aztecan languages spoken by the Shoshone Indian tribes in the western United States (includes Hopi, and Comanche) … English contemporary dictionary
Shoshonean — noun a branch of the Uto Aztecan language family that includes Comanche and Shoshone. adjective relating to or denoting this group of languages … English new terms dictionary
Mesoamerican Indian languages — Introduction also called Middle American Indian languages group of languages spoken in an area of the aboriginal New World that includes central and southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, parts of Honduras and Nicaragua, and… … Universalium
Uto-Aztecan languages — Uto Aztecan Geographic distribution: Western United States, Mexico Linguistic classification: Uto Aztecan Proto language: Proto Uto Aztecan Subdivisions: Hopi … Wikipedia
Uto-Aztecan languages — Family of more than 30 American Indian languages spoken in pre Columbian times from the northern Great Basin to Central America. Geographically, Uto Aztecan can be divided into a northern and a southern branch. The northern branch, spoken from… … Universalium
Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas — This article is a list of different language classification proposals developed for indigenous languages of the Americas. The article is divided into North, Central, and South America sections; however, the classifications do not always neatly… … Wikipedia
